42 U.S.C. § 289g–4 — Support for emergency medicine research

(a) Emergency medical research. The Secretary must support federal programs run by the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other agencies that improve emergency care. The goal is to expand and speed up research into emergency medical care systems and emergency medicine. This research covers the basic science behind emergency medicine, the models of delivering emergency services and which parts of those models improve patient outcomes, turning basic research into better real-world practice, and developing faster and more efficient ways to deliver health services. (b) Pediatric emergency medical research. The Secretary must also support the same set of agencies to coordinate and expand research focused on emergency medical care for children. This includes examining the gaps and opportunities in pediatric emergency care research and building a strategy to fund and organize that research well. It includes studying how pediatric emergency services fit into the overall health system. It includes planning, preparing for, coordinating, and funding pediatric emergency care system-wide. It includes training on pediatric care as part of professional education. And it includes researching how well, and how safely, medications work for infants, children, and teenagers in emergency care, in order to improve patient safety. (c) Impact research. The Secretary must support research to estimate the economic impact of coordinated emergency care systems, and the savings they produce. (d) Funding. Congress may spend whatever amount is necessary to carry out this section, for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014.